Strategy as Learning and Innovation

How this chapter will help you

Strategic planning is a formal and analytical process. Nevertheless, as boxer Mike Tyson once said, ‘Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth’, and strategists find out that many informal and intuitive lessons are learned in the field. This chapter shows how you identify a learning organisation and demonstrates the importance of learning as you go, coming up with new ways of dealing with the world around you, using the capabilities of the organisation to innovate.

Introduction

I have no idea where in the world you are as you read these words, but I do know when – now. Your tomorrow is still to ...

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